by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Sat, 2017 | Licensed to Lie |
BOHICA: On March 19, 2007, the Fifth Circuit issued its decision in Regents, a civil suit against several large banks that had done transactions with Enron, including Merrill Lynch in the Barge transaction. The Fifth Circuit reversed the decision and held that the...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Sat, 2017 | Licensed to Lie |
Continuing Chapter 8: Meanwhile, in Houston, the trial of Skilling and Lay… Once again it was the task force’s show with prosecutors Kathryn Ruemmler and Sean Berkowitz. The defense request for Brady material was met with a FBI form 302—a report of an interview, that...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Sat, 2017 | Licensed to Lie |
Chapter 8 Continued: Bayly, incarcerated at Petersburg, Furst at Seagoville, and Jim Brown at Fort Dix, lived in daily fear of being attacked—by the guards as much as by the inmate population. There was no privacy. The filth and bugs were everywhere. Prison was...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Fri, 2017 | Licensed to Lie |
Chapter 7: Supreme Reversals April 27, 2005. Ms. Powell was invited to sit in on the oral argument before the Supreme Court by Maureen Mahoney. Assistant Solicitor General Michael Dreeben argued the case for the government. The Supreme Court included Chief Justice...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Fri, 2017 | Licensed to Lie |
Chapter 5: Nailing the Coffins The judge made the following errors: At the prosecutors’ request, he expanded the already broad definition of conspiracy (which requires an “agreement”) beyond all prior boundaries by adding “or understanding.” He did not give the...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Fri, 2017 | Licensed to Lie |
Chapter 4: The Nigerian Barge Deal: No crime here, but people are going to prison. In going over the indictment of Jim Brown and his colleagues, Ms. Powell noted that there were no real criminal offenses in the indictment. Instead, it cobbled together parts of...